Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act Amendment Act (No. 3) 1979 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

METROPOLITAN WATER

SUPPLY, SEWERAGE, AND

DRAINAGE (No. 3).

No. 42 of 1979.

AN ACT to amend section ninety of the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909-1979.

[Assented to 25th October, 1979.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Tana„.

Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act

Amendment Act (No. 3), 1979.

(2) In this Act the Metropolitan Water Supply, Fa2g,k1,=. Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909-1979, is referred gepere intb 13r t h to as the principal Act. amended by	Acts Nos. 19,	76 and 105 of	1978 and 3 of
1979.

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(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited at the Metropolitan Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Act, 1909-1979.

Commence-

ment. 2. The provisions of this Act shall be deemed to

have come into operation on the 1st July, 1979.

Section 90

amended. 3. Section 90 of the principal Act is amended

(a) by deleting the passage "and prescribe the quantity of water which the owner or occupier of land so rated shall be entitled to receive by way of allowance (if any) in respect of that rate and the price to be paid in respect of other water supplied by measure during the consumption year which terminates in the rating year then next following, in accordance with" in subsection (4) and inserting in lieu thereof a new passage as follows

assessed on the basis of one or more of the following charges, that is to say

(a)	a prescribed standard charge, which may or may not be expressed to be a minimum charge, and may or may not be determined by reference to the rateable value (whether or not an allowance of water is prescribed in respect of that charge);
(b)	a further prescribed charge determined by reference to the rateable value; and
(c)	a charge for water supplied through a meter based on a price determined by reference to the quantity measured (whether or not that price is based on a graduated scale) but not

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including any allowance of water prescribed pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection,

in accordance with ;

(b)

by deleting the passage "directs—" where it appears immediately preceding Table A of subsection (4) and inserting in lieu thereof the passage "directs, and may allow without charge a prescribed quantity of water which the owner or occupier of land so rated shall be entitled to receive in respect of any charge of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) of this subsection, and may fix the price to be paid in respect of water supplied by measure during the consumption year which terminates in the rating year then next following." ;

(c)

by deleting the word "rate" where it appears in-

(i)    line five of Table A;

(ii)    line seven of Table B; and

(iii)    line seven of Table C,

of subsection (4) and inserting in lieu

thereof the word "charge"; and

(d) by deleting the words "that rate" in line nine of Table D of subsection (4) and inserting in lieu thereof the words "those charges".